Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Management Corporate Governance grade: 3.3 Kenya Methodist University language: English abstract: This academic paper provides a well-detailed diagnosis forces and steps by which strategic management gives a competitive edge to the practicing organizations. Strategic management as a subject has therefore been simplified in this paper to make it easy for a business-related student to understand the essence of strategic management in business organizations.Strategic management is a broad subject which has been summarized in the area of competition so as to give important and realistic collection of concepts ideas and theories which are applicable in various organizations.